COUPLE THERAPY COURSE

Professional training for therapists starting February 2026!

Deepen your clinical skills, grow your confidence, and help couples build thriving relationships.

COUPLE THERAPY COURSE

based in Positive & Transcultural Psychotherapy

Nurture stronger relationships through expert couple therapy. Our 9-module Couple Therapy Certificate blends the Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (PPT) framework with systemic, psychodynamic, and experiential approaches. This training gives therapists the tools and confidence to support couples with empathy, understanding, and skill, helping them navigate communication, intimacy, diversity, and life’s complex relational challenges.

What You Will Gain

By completing this training, you will be able to:

Work confidently with couples experiencing relational challenges
Apply systemic, psychodynamic, and integrative therapeutic models
Establish ethical frameworks, risk assessment, and clear boundaries in couple work
Support communication, intimacy, and conflict resolution between partners
Address issues of diversity, sexuality, and intersectionality in therapy
Help couples manage stress, transitions, and mental health challenges
Sustain long-term therapeutic progress with couples beyond therapy

Course Format & Details

Duration: 9 Modules × 10 Academic Hours
Delivery: Online (live interactive sessions) or In-Person (where available)
Methodology: Lectures, case studies, role-play, experiential learning, peer discussion
Materials Included: Handouts, reading lists, worksheets, case examples
Certification: Participants will receive a Couple Therapy Certificate upon successful completion

COUPLE THERAPY COURSE

Module 1: Professional Framework for Relationship Counselling

Foundations of relationship counselling, core theories, ethics, safeguarding, supervision, therapist’s role, boundaries, communication, and working with domestic violence.

Module 2: Positive Psychotherapy in Couple Therapy

PPT tools (Actual Capacities, WIPPF, Key Conflict), case conceptualisation, relational patterns, active listening, empathy, assertiveness, and constructive conflict management.

Module 3: Psychodynamic Approach

Attachment styles, unconscious dynamics, projective processes, stages of couple development, interactional patterns, and binding beliefs.

Module 4: Systemic, EFT, Behavioural & CBT Approaches

Systemic concepts, cultural diversity, intergenerational patterns, genograms, boundaries, extended family, shared visions, intimacy, trust, and gratitude.

Module 5: Managing Stress & Life Transitions

Parenthood, career shifts, divorce, blended families, ageing, autonomy, resilience, and supporting each other through life changes.

Module 6: Difference & Diversity

Cultural competence, reflexivity, gender, sexuality, intersectionality, disability, ageing, and affirmative therapy (GSERD).

Module 7: Sexual Focus & Relational Challenges

Affairs, betrayal, sexual concerns, intimacy issues, and enhancing physical and emotional closeness.

Module 8: Mental Health & Couple Therapy

Depression, anxiety, trauma, substance use, high-conflict dynamics (e.g., narcissistic-borderline couples), and integrating mental health with relationship work.

Module 9: Review & Integration

Consolidating theories and skills, reflecting on learning, and strategies for sustaining progress beyond therapy.

Main Course Trainer

A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John A. Shedd - Amos

Raluca Ursica

Counselling Psychologist, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor, International Trainer

I aim to empower you to make real changes in your personal and professional life. I have over 17 years of experience in mental health. I am based in London and also work online with international clients.

Counselling Psychologist registered with HCPC
Accredited Positive Psychotherapist, registered with WAPP, UKCP, BACP, EAP and APA.
International trainer registered with WAPP
Clinical Supervisor registered with BACP
Relate-trained Couples Therapist
Interpersonal group therapy facilitator
Certified Trainer (National Council for Adult Vocational Training)
Trained in Mentalization-Based Treatment (Anna Freud Centre)
Mindfulness practitioner and trainer
ADOS2 certified (Tavistock NHS Foundation Trust)

I believe in discovering all resources through body, mind, and spirit, allowing you to develop the skills to achieve your goals and a sense of inner balance.